Review: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Jamaica? No, she wanted to. This is possibly the grittiest and most "literary" book I'll read this year. I mean it. It's the kind of book you study in high school and hate, but read on your own and love. It's one powerful piece of writing, and it reminded me of The Color Purple but even bleaker. Here...

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A New Favourite: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Jane Austen meets JRR Tolkien I watched the 2016 BBC mini-series a few months ago, which made me want to read the book. In case you don't know, the book is a monster, and it took me exactly 2 months to read. I read the ebook, not the physical book pictured, for this reason. War and Peace...

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A Reread of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

  Date finished: 28 November 2015 I first read Pride and Prejudice five years ago (not as long ago as I thought, actually, when I checked Goodreads) and gave it a 3-star rating. 13-year-old me didn't understand the language, but 18-year-old me found it much easier and more enjoyable to...

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Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

  Date finished: 22 August 2015 Ask the Passengers is one of the best novels I've read in 2015, and as you can see from my previous reviews, I've read some pretty good books this year. It's so good that I read it in one day, unable to put it down. The plot is pretty simple, but nice. I...

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Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende

Date finished: 19 March 2015 Although she's a bestselling author, the only reason I've heard about Isabel Allende is because she was mentioned in Spanish class a couple of times last year and the year before. About a month ago I was looking for Hispanic writers to read, and remembered...

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Panic (Panic #1) by Lauren Oliver

Date finished: 14 December 2014 When I first read the blurb of this book I was a little wary of the "new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them" line, but I was pleasantly surprised when the book turned out to be original and unclichéd,...

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Sense & Sensibility (The Austen Project) by Joanna Trollope

   Date finished: 21 May 2014 Sense & Sensibility is my favourite of the Jane Austen novels. (I've read all of her works and I'm only sixteen. Just putting it out there.) I just love the contrast between Elinor and Marianne, and the bitch that is Lucy Steele, and the awkwardness...

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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Date finished: 5 April 2014 I have to study this for English and let me tell you, I don't agree with "don't judge a book by its cover" one little bit. Just looking at the cover when my teacher handed me a copy, I knew that I was not going to enjoy this book. And I was right. To...

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